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belk

belk verb: to vomit.

Verb

belk (third-person singular simple present belks, present participle belking, simple past and past participle belked)

  1. (obsolete) To vomit.
    • And in beholding how he fed and belked up againe
      His bloody vittells at his mouth, and uttred out amayne1567, Ovid, “The Fourteenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Belk

Belk

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Fayette County, Alabama, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Tennessee, United States.

Forms of belk

third-person singular presentbelks
present participlebelking
past participlebelked
pastbelked

Origin of belk

See belch.

Questions about belk

What does belk mean?
Belk means to vomit.
What part of speech is belk?
Belk can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of belk?
The past tense of belk is belked.

Words near belk in the dictionary

  1. Belizeanness
  2. Belizeans
  3. Belizian
  4. Belizians
  5. Belišće
  6. belk
  7. Belka
  8. Belkadi
  9. Belkadis
  10. Belkas
  11. belked

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